Hello Everyone,

Today, we have hit one of our “community goals” for supporters. We now have 20 concurrent supporters! This is another big milestone, and I am thrilled that so many people are willing to support us financially. I hope that I continue to give you good reason to stick around and to continue supporting the server. If anyone feels like checking out our available supporter package – please do so at our web store!

As promised, the price has now dropped from $6.99 a month – down to $5.99 a month! Important note for existing supporters – our payment processor/store system DOES NOT allow us to update the pricing on your existing subscription (An annoyingly bothersome issue, that I’ve contacted them about – and they don’t plan to offer a fix, one day I will escape this garbage store system). This means that you current price remains – unless you cancel and renew your membership.

I always suggest that you do – but I know many of you are happy to maintain your current pricing (Which is incredibly kind and not necessary). I always try my best to eliminate unnecessary roadblocks for folks, but this is unfortunately something I can’t avoid at this time. If you’d like to cancel your membership, and then renew it with the new pricing (Note: You won’t be able to do this until the end of the current subscription period) – you can follow the documentation instructions on canceling your subscription.

Hopefully one day I will find a better solution that gives me a little more control over things like this – so that users don’t have to be bothered (I know it’s incredibly inconvenient), but for now – we will work with what we have available.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can always email us, use our contact form, or join our discord (For supporters, use the 💎︱supporter-chat channel).

I have been going crazy trying to optimize performance on the server. Including purchasing new optimized server software, optimizing the java environment on the actual hardware the server runs on, consulting multiple java/minecraft server experts on things like java flags and ZGC/G1GC options.

I finally got everything to a good spot and then saw that we were having occasional HUGE mspt spikes. I was able to track it down with some performance profiles to the ShopkeepersList plugin (The /fs command). The plugin is unfortunately no longer maintained – but thankfully open source on github. So, I’ve spent the last week or two, developing several iterations of my own version to deal with the performance issues.

Unfortunately, for now – that means I’ve disabled “stock checking” on the shops in the search. Instead, it simply lists the trades available. I am working on a system that will hopefully be able to properly “cache” the stock and prevent the bad spikes we get from it, but that is a work in progress.

If all is going according to plan – you folks should never notice the changes I make (Besides less disruptions).

Thought I would mention that I’ve added a chat system to our limbo servers that you get kicked to when we do something like restart. You still won’t see everyone online in the tab list (but that is coming soon), but everyone will see your chats.

We have some big changes coming and I’ve been moving a lot of our plugin systems to an external database so that we can sync across proxy/server and better manage things.

Lots to do, lots of backend changes, but I am loving it.

Thanks for reading another one of my rambles – hope you go something out of it. Thank you again for the support of my server, I never imagined so many people would care about this little project.